Roman roads in Hampshire
Calleva Atrebatum at Silchester sits in the north of the county and is one of the most remarkable Roman sites in Britain: a walled town abandoned after the Roman period rather than built over, so the full circuit of its walls and its amphitheatre stand in open farmland with a footpath round them. The Devil's Highway ran west to it from London, and roads radiated from Calleva in every direction.
- Mapped segments
- 26
- Surveyed length
- 320 km
- Named roads
- 1
Measured from the Itiner-e survey within the modern county boundary, which for Yorkshire, Cheshire and the other counties broken up in 1974 means the traditional area reassembled from its present-day parts. The survey maps far more road than it attributes to a named route, so the segment count counts everything, and the named roads below are only those with a history recorded here.
Where to see it
Park at the church inside the walls, walk the full circuit through farmland, and find the amphitheatre outside the east gate. Reading Museum holds the finds, including the Silchester eagle. Elsewhere in the county, Portchester Castle near Portsmouth has the most complete Roman fort walls in northern Europe, standing to their full height with a Norman keep inside.
Named roads through Hampshire
The Devil's Highway
Londinium to Calleva Atrebatum